Pull-Ups

I have issues w/ pull-ups.  Wonderful idea...but a pull-up does not encourage actual potty training. Children love to play and get into stuff.  Children do not like to stop playing or having fun.  They would prefer to just go where they sit and continue playing.  The idea of stopping to go to the bathroom is not a fun idea. If a child has the option to continue having fun w/out stopping to go to they bathroom that is exactly what they will do.  F.Y.I children are able to control all muscles necessary to be potty trained by 18 months.  Now I have heard many parents tell me that doctors tell them not to worry about potty training b/c the kid will go when they are ready.  Well, thanks to them and pull-ups there are 5 year olds running around in pull-ups still not potty trained.  Why is this you ask?  Good question...b/c they can.  If their is no pressure to go to the potty and they are comfortable wearing a pull-up that wonderfully contains their mess, well then, let the playing continue.  If a child is able to control the necessary muscles to appropriately go to the bathroom then that is precisely where they need to go.  I have observed this repeatedly.